Administration's priorities mixed up

4:33 PM,
Jul. 14, 2014

Gary Lightfoot

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Gary Lightfoot
Guest Columnist

We find that no one is willing to or has the power to fire incompetent administrators at the VA or employees of the VA who fraudulently gamed the system for bonuses, at the expense of the health and lives of veterans. The government cannot fire employees at the IRS who have targeted political groups they did not like and who had people audited that they disagreed with their political views.

The government cannot fire people who have stonewalled investigations or who have lied to Congress. But we now find that the administration can fire or discharge military personnel who are serving in ...